Brian Baker

L.A. punk band Bad Religion will join entertainers Bill Maher, Eddie Izzard and other speakers on March 24 for the Reason Rally in Washington, D.C. Bad Religion's members have long sung about their preference for reason transcending religious...

Emotions ran high this week as boat owners confronted the Wilmette Park District over its inquiry into potentially acquiring the lease for the popular and …...

Google's acquisition of Widevine is another sign that it is trying to burnish its image in Hollywood and among its allies in Washington....

Several bronze headstones were removed from grave sites at Downey Cemetery, which dates to the 19th century and counts Civil War veterans among those buried there, police said. Downey police were called to the cemetery in the 12900 block of......

Evanston resident Bob Nierodzik was only 13 when the record-setting blizzard of 1967 dumped 23 inches of snow on the Chicago area. “The days prior …...

The "BMW bandits," a group of professional thieves who have been stealing air bags and headlights for luxury cars on the Westside and in the Mid-Wilshire area, appear to be spreading to the San Fernando Valley. In recent months, about......

Jaxx Leffew Jaxx Logen Taylor Leffew, son of Kimberly Duff and Travis Lee Leffew, died March 8, 2013.  In addition to his parents, he is survived by his siblings, Dustin Lee Leffew and Cayden Alexander Moore; grandparents, Rob and Diane Duff of...

The man accused of holding up hair salons in Chicago and the suburbs used a BB gun, picked places where there would be no male workers, and told police the robberies paid for his crack cocaine habit, authorities say. Jason Logsdon, 41, also used his...

An Evanston man charged with robbing nearly a dozen hair salons in the Chicago area was enrolled in culinary school, where he appeared deeply interested in the food and the course work — at least in the beginning, a former classmate said. She...

Greg Graffin knows something about teenage rebellion. As the young singer for one of SoCal's most prominent hard-core punk bands, Bad Religion, raging against parental control (and the global system) was his core mission in the early 1980s. Although...

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Wednesday night was probably the first time a singer used the phrase “hemagglutinin” onstage at the Echo. Longtime L.A. punk fans know that can mean only one thing -- local heroes Bad Religion were playing a rare club-sized show, and its...